Namecoin is a decentralized key/value storage system with integrated currency based on Bitcoin technology. It is being used as a decentralized DNS system (.bit) and has the potential for a ton of other things like a web of trust, voting, personal id, bonds, etc.. More here: http://namecoin.infohttp://dot-bit.org

A lot of things have been going on behind the scenes lately. This thread is meant to be a comfortable way for you to stay up to date. It will be locked all the time and only contain the essence of crisp official announcements so you can safely activate the watch feature for this thread.

This is what the fixed version will do:* the name database is rebuild enforcing strict ownership of names --> if you install this version you can once again trust the key-value pairs 100%

* to retain compatibility bad name operations are allowed in blocks for a while but are completely ignored

* after block 150k bad transactions are disallowed in blocks --> this is a potential hard fork so everybody needs to have updated by then

Thanks to:libcoin of kraken.com for finding and reporting the bug and also for helping with the fix.thecoder and snailbrain for the fix.khal and everyone else verifying, testing and supplying patches.all donators and moral supporters.

A vulnerability was found in Bitcoin Core. It allows an attack from malicious peers in the local network via UPNP. Namecoin is affected, too, so everybody should turn off UPNP until further notice (see Bitcoin link).